San Jose, CA (GotFrag) -- From August 25th to 27th, the best Counter-Strike teams from around the World will gather at NVISION 08 in San Jose, California to compete in the annual Electronic Sports World Cup. This tournament marks the first time the Grand Final event will be held outside of France. Teams have stamped their tickets after winning various national qualifiers over the past several months. Returning are the defending champions Meet Your Makers who defeated NoA in a thrilling match up last summer.

Below you will find a full viewers guide to help make sure you don't miss out on any of the action from the 2008 ESWC Grand Final. GotFrag will once again be live on site with a full crew of staff members to bring you exclusive content, interviews, HLTV, demos, Gamesense Statistics, galleries, blogs and much much more. So make sure to keep your web browser's locked on GotFrag.com throughout the three day event.

Prize Distribution

1. $40,000 USD
2. $25,000 USD
3. $14,000 USD

Tournament Format

Stage I: Group Play (Top 2 advance)
Stage II: Group Play (Top 2 advance)
Stage III: Single Elimination (best of three maps)

ESWC Groups

Group A PGS.MYM Pro100 Nice One Team 34	Group B Made in Brazil Dignitas Millenium Mindless	Group C Mousesports LowLandLions Winners QTP	Group D Mortal Teamwork Frag eXecutors Motus Assassin List
Group E Fnatic Alternate Vatos Locos Speeder	Group F Roccat emuLate Evil Geniuses Make it Happen	Group G SK Gaming wNv Mafia of Brothers Defining Stars	Group H e-STRO X3O n!faculty Xuxan

HLTV/Scorebots

HLTV IPs

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IRC Scorebots

To Be Determined

ESWC 2008 Schedule

Monday, August 25th

10:00am PDT to 2:00pm PDT
Group Stage I Matches

3:30pm PDT to 9:00pm PDT
Group Stage II Matches

Tuesday, August 26th

10:00am PDT
Quarter Finals (Best of Three)

2:00pm PDT
Semi Finals (Best of Three)

6:00pm PDT
3rd Place Runoff (Best of Three)

9:00pm PDT
Grand Finals (Best of Three)

User Comments

niiiiiiiiiiiiiice... <3 gftv

Group A:
-PGS.MYM
-Team34 (yea I said it)

Group B:
-Made in Brazil
-Dignitas

Group C:
-Mousesports
-QTP

Group D:
-Mortal Teamwork
-Frag eXecutors

Group E:
-Fnatic
-Alternate

Group F:
-Roccat
-emuLate

Group G:
-SK Gaming
-Mafia of Brothers

Group H:
-e-STRO
-x3o

After that last match in group h is when the real fun starts :)

yay mousesports is korean yay

#LANbeforeTIME ~~ dvt is teh n008135t (>-__-)>: dont talk to me anymore. *sadface**

LOL #4 I know huh

CS 1.6 Asian Coverage | Hey itz BackHo WHHAATT!

mTw > SK in the finals

ROFL team34. GOGO BIG RED DOG

#wholans #omni #bth

This is the first time i have seen a ESWC event without a Norwegian team in the list :(

Group A:
PGS-MYM
Pro100

Group B:
Dignitas
Millenium

Group C:
Mousesports
LowLandLions

Group D:
mTw
Frag eXecutors

Group E:
Fnatic
aTTax

Group F:
Roccat
Emluate

Group G:
Defining Star
SK Gaming

Group H:
e-STRO
n!faculity

This comment was edited at 08/24/2008 1:34 AM

Group A:
PGS-MYM
Pro100

Group B:
Mibr
Millenium

Group C:
Mousesports
LowLandLions

Group D:
mTw
Frag eXecutors

Group E:
Fnatic
aTTax

Group F:
Roccat
Emluate

Group G:
SK Gaming
MoB

Group H:
e-STRO
x3o

#f-zer0

see you there

Part-time GotFrag Writer - Fulltime Dr Pepper Enthusiast

mym to win it.

*DEAD* m Y m Neo : laugh now cry later cogut :D

GL SK and x3o :D!

Sk-ladies #gx3 - www.sk-gaming.com/

Group A:
PGS-MYM
Pro100

Group B:
Mibr
Xuxan

Group C:
Mousesports
LowLandLions

Group D:
mTw
Frag eXecutors

Group E:
Fnatic
aTTax

Group F:
Roccat
Evil Geniuses

Group G:
SK Gaming
MoB

Group H:
x3o
e-STRO

jsm

rizyer mizyer is spot on

man, EG has it rough

KSHARP SAVE US!!! "rift is the smartest man on these forums when ksharp isnt posting, dont argue."

too bad Dragon isnt playing, god i wanted to see them play so bad.....

i think sk and e-stro will play the final from what i'v seen lately

#17 yes

"fRoD doesnt cheat" "#7 online/north america, you do the math" -qu4kE_

Group A:
-pro100 (Virtus.Pro)
-PGS.MYM

both of these teams have to use a different name :O

Group B:
-Made in Brazil
-Dignitas

hopefully dignitas can beat everyone in their group but MiBR

Group C:
-Mousesports
-LowLandLions

mouz will win all their matches.

Group D:
-Mortal Teamwork
-Frag eXecutors

mTw will win all their matches and frag eX is pretty good.

Group E:
-Fnatic
-Alternate

fnatic is fnatic and Alternate stands out more then the other teams.

Group F:
-Roccat
-EG

Roccat is a very good team who often crumble, but not in groups and EG should beat emL easily.

Group G:
-SK Gaming
-Mafia of Brothers

SK is 1 of my 3 favourites to win (others being Virtus.Pro and mTw) and MoB should beat wNv at an international LAN setting.

Group H:
-x30
-e-STRO

e-STRO is pretty sick but they will fail to x30 in their group winning the other matches.

n0thing, Volcano, dboorN, mehLer, zid NA ::: walle, REAL, Tixo, zonic, NEo Euro Dreamteam

What are you talking about? Frag eXecutors suck, they even lost to danish mix team (wooSai)

I personally believe eSTRO can go all the way!

This comment was edited at 08/24/2008 6:38 AM

Broken hearted :/

can any1 tell me the match timings @ccording to Pakistan standard time

Dont minus frag me because your jealous of my first.

Pro100 all your best

Go e-STRO :D

Gotfrag TV would of been cool !

agree with #19, but emL > EG

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good, this tournamount will be easy for me to watch from the usa for once.

http://i36.tinypic.com/nvv538.jpg

again same question
can any1 tell the match timings @ccording to Pakistan standard time...

Group A:
-PGS.MYM
-pro100

Group B:
-Made in Brazil
-Dignitas

Group C:
-Mousesports
-LowLandLions

Group D:
-Mortal Teamwork
-Frag eXecutors

Group E:
-Fnatic
-Alternate

Group F:
-EG
-Roccat

Group G:
-SK Gaming
-Mafia of Brothers

Group H:
-x3o
-eSTRO

This comment was edited at 08/24/2008 11:38 AM

#rt #remnant

group a
NO CLUE
group b
MIBR
group c
Mouse Sports
GroupD
MtW
Group E
Fnatic/Alt
Group F
EG!!!!!!!
Group G
SK
Group H
eStro

rerated NY gaming

vatos locos > alternante

GROUP A
-team34
-nice one

GROUP B
-mindless
-xuxan

GROUP C
-LowLandLions
-Winners

GROUP D
-Green Troop
-Assassin List

GROUP E
-Vatos Locos
-Speeder

GROUP F
-Evil Geniuses
-Make it Happen

GROUP G
-Defining Stars
-wNv

GROUP H
-X3O
-Punto CL

The Groups are change
http://www.eswc.com/grandfinal/sanjose200..

Go Peru

#29 group A no clue .. wtf !! :S ... MYM and pro100

mouz and mibr are lucky to qualify for the second stage )

go alternate !

go motus?

Powders got more power when cooked with flour.

i think it is ridiculous to keep the tournament in USA, i mean, all the matches will be in the middle in the night if you life in Europe, and most teams attending are from Europe.. :x
so goodluck have fun with your USA spectators, of teams that are not gonna do any damage anyway ESWC :x

#31 has it

nice groups, no easy way out for anyone :D

johnny schwan is a d0uch3

LOL MoB and EG, got screwed in the group play.

#vertex

good luck to all teams

Nelson Torres | wNv Crew | www.wNv-Gaming.com | #wnv.Teamwork

#19 worst serious prediction ever
#36 i agree

But just a few good matches to watch in this 1st group stage:
MYM VS Virtus
fnatic VS Alternate
Roccat VS emL
Roccat VS EG
emL VS EG
SK VS wNv
eSTRO VS x3o

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No GotFrag TV? Just HLTV? Any other Streams to watch things live, even better if they are on-site and not watching it thru HLTV.

SK vs e-Stro finals would be epic.

Good Luck to MIBr and the American teams, especially MoB I hope they represent in this tournament.

This comment was edited at 08/24/2008 9:56 PM

If you can read this, I can slam on my brakes and sue you!

Just watch..wNv n Eg r making out..lol ppl lost faith completely on them

Mera Bharat Mahan

Will there be any GotfragTV???

go mibr

EG and MOTUS FTW!!

Bait Hard ! Go Pro !

live ?

GOGO FNATIC !

안녕, 갓프랙 꼬꼬마 친구들?

This is epic

mym mym!

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

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